Well some of you may know at the beginning of the year i bought a very nice example of a 1.9 205 gti finished in miami blue, i have always wanted to buy a 205 and fit the gti6 engine to it, well the car has been sat in the corner of my garage now for months collecting dust due to not having any time to start it, well that all changed yesterday as work was slack and the lad i have who works with me had nothing to do so it all started.

The car itself is a 1994 205 1.9 gti with the later engine and ecu setup so only produces 122bhp which back in the day was good but by todays standard is no match for anything really.

How it was when i bought it-




The engine bay as it looked-



Then after a couple of hours this is what we managed (in the back of my head i was thinking what have i done!)-



With the old engine completely removed, it looks a nice and dry engine to be fair and so it should really after only covering 66k-




With the engine removed the bay looked a little grubby-



After a good clean with the hot washer and some elbow grease it came out like this-



The only bit thats going to need a fettle is the battery tray, looks like a battery must have leaked some acid in the past and done this-



Well one of these lumps should fit it i guess -




Not really, i had a block and head to pieces and have started to rebuild it as once the lump is fitted i want to forget about it and jsut be able to use the car when i want without any hassles.

Heres the block, all reassembled, just going to give the block a good rub down and apply some engine laquer to it-



The cylinder head is all fully rebuilt and i had the clever idea of painting it again with engine laquer but in red, well once applied it looked a bit pink to me, what do you think?-

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

You have ripped its heart out poor little car!
How much do you want for the old engine, might come in handy for my 205, with the management as the later ones are more refined than the earlier even though they are less power.


ps you workshop is nearly as bad as my shed with bits of GTi-6s everywhere!!

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Carl Chambers
email; pugnacious.peugeot@yahoo.co.uk
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C.M.CHAMBERS CARS
Peugeot Specialist
Tel; 01379 586101 after 6.30 or 07889 082466 anytime.

pugsport-racing.co.uk

Im sure it will look very nice when finished but it would have been nice to see it become a completely standard concourse gti i reckon Still keep plugging away

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Just Drive It

Well done a little more today, cleaned back the block with the wire wool adapter in the drill, acid etch primed the block and then sprayed over it with high temperature black paint.

Then fitted the head, have to say this may be the most colourfull engine bay i have seen once this is all back together-






Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Looking good

what paint did you use for the engine? i wanna spray mine up (not so colourful tho) but not sure on what paint to use.
was thinking just some halfords engine paint would be up to the task.

Looking like a minter already carl

Thanks for doing a spot on job on my 6 rear bushes, cambelt kit and exaust spot on

Thanks again

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Xbox Live = Sp4n

Team one gti-6 - 2 cherry rallye's

I havent really thought about it to be honest its way to nice to track, i think i will use the rallye as the evryday car and use this when its nice.

I would say show it, but its not show mint as little bits that the concourse guys go for are not up to spec i feel anyway.

Seans is an out and out racer though isnt it?

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Just wait Mr Jones, the current one looks like a blind paraplegic has built it, but the new one will be a different league

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Seat Leon Cupra FR / 306 GTI6 / Breaking 205 GTI6 / Caterham 7 / Mercedes Sprinter 311CDI LWB

Sold: Fisher Fury - Laguna DCI Estate - P1 306 XSI - E30 BMW 325i Baur Convertible - Daihatsu Fourtack - Suzuki GSXR600 - 205 Rallye

Yes using a xsara five speed box, should be nice that way with a steering lock


Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

It will scream its nuts off with one of them on, and just wheel spin everywhere! I think it will be better with the Xsara box on, I have the 6 box on my 205 GTi-6 and its plenty quick enough with that on, just has a totally crap lock but its a track car so it doesnt matter to me.


Carl what are you going to do bulk head wise? Mine had to be cut and re-welded to get the exhaust manifold and front pipe in! It would be a shame to have to cut or bash your one about.

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Carl Chambers
email; pugnacious.peugeot@yahoo.co.uk
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C.M.CHAMBERS CARS
Peugeot Specialist
Tel; 01379 586101 after 6.30 or 07889 082466 anytime.

pugsport-racing.co.uk

Mine doesn't spin up really, just careful throttle control, and a plate LSD probably helps though.

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Seat Leon Cupra FR / 306 GTI6 / Breaking 205 GTI6 / Caterham 7 / Mercedes Sprinter 311CDI LWB

Sold: Fisher Fury - Laguna DCI Estate - P1 306 XSI - E30 BMW 325i Baur Convertible - Daihatsu Fourtack - Suzuki GSXR600 - 205 Rallye

I've got a 1.9 box with 1.6 Final Drive on my Mi, which gives you the gearing of the 1.9 but revier like the 1.6

Found this site quite useful when working out what gearbox would be good.

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Pics of my 6
My 6 on Google Video thanks to coxy306Xsi